8GB Optimal for Lion?

[kingping14]

Coming from a 4GB 13" MBP, I'm finding it not as smooth as before in SL. Got a ram monitor app and saw that I'm constantly running low on ram if I dont reboot the computer everyday.

It has come to me that maybe I should upgrade ram to 8GB?

thoughts?

 

[Bernard SG]

I run Lion on a 3 GB 2008 iMac with no problem at all.

 

[maflynn]

From what I found, 4GB is good, but depending on what you run, 8gb is the best. I have 8gb and lion runs very fast and stable and I usually have a number of apps open at any given time.

If you have the budget and ability to go to 8gb, I'd say go for it

 

[CodeBreaker]

Coming from a 4GB 13" MBP, I'm finding it not as smooth as before in SL. Got a ram monitor app and saw that I'm constantly running low on ram if I dont reboot the computer everyday.

It has come to me that maybe I should upgrade ram to 8GB?

thoughts?

Find it out yourself:
Use your computer normally for a day. At the end open Activity Monitor and see what's the percentage of page outs to page ins. If it's more than 20 %, more RAM would benefit you.

 

[PrashP]

I can run on 2GB fine.

The only problem I still have is the flash player lags whenever I try to stream video (youtube the exception).